Coaching and You. 🎬

That was my presentation to the Robert Walters team last Friday. it went really well and that was a truly enjoyable moment for me.

It's not the 1st time I am asked to bring this presentation to a senior Recruitment team and it's great to see how different the questions are each time.

Some teams want to know more about the concept of coaching, some prefer dig into the practice itself and how they can use it with their clients, some are more interested into one side of it, like how they can develop deep listening or powerful questioning, etc.

My favorite part is the practise bit I always put at the end of the slide show.
In my opinion, it is absolutely necessary to go through it as:
- coaching seems easy as this is based on things we are all practising every day: listening, asking questions, understanding, rephrasing, etc.
At first sight, it looks like a conversation you would have with a close friend.
- but actually, coaching is far more complex. You need to be able to improvise in a few seconds the reflections and/or questions that will best serve your client at this very moment of time, having listened to sometimes long chunks of difficult, emotional or factual stories, making sure to understand his/her thought-process in order to be as impactful as possible.

So it's good to see how people get to understand that it is actually not an easy practise as soon as they try it themselves. It's a fun way of learning and it always always always brings people to know more about themselves 🗝 .

And for me, these moments are invaluable to get feedbacks I am using to adjust my presentations to be even better and more efficient next time 📈.

#leadershipcoaching #teamcoaching #teamdevelopment#learningandgrowing #skilldevelopment

Inauguration Saturday, 12th of November

If you like Tintin and if you live close to Suzhou, I would recommend you visit the Sino-french art exhibition that I inaugurated on Saturday 🇨🇵 🇨🇳.

This exhibition is especially celebrating the friendship between Hergé and Chongren Zhang who we all know as Tchang, Tintin's Chinese friend (Chongren was actually a very famous painter and sculptor and shared his life between France and China).

It's been 2 interesting hours where we could meet world-class painters and renowned teachers.

I was invited to be part of the team who inaugurated the exhibition and I was also interviewed about my life in Suzhou.
I have to admit that I enjoyed very much my (too short) time of the stage. I might have been an actress in a previous life (my husband would say a drama queen 😄)

#art #exhibitions #interview #frenchtouch 

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An online webinar focused on the importance of communication styles within the workplace. In this webinar we aimed to breed the confidence to communicate effectively by incorporating specific skills for commonly faced situations within the workplace. 

I was invited to give a presentation at the LA HR English Salon. I had chosen to talk about ones of the things I am passionate about, coaching in the workplace.
I explained what coaching is, why anyone can benefit from it, how it can be measured and what positive influence it can have on your professional and/or private life.  

Youth Leadership Training Program, in cooperation with Learn-Will Cultural Centre, Suzhou

1st-5th of August 2022

Leadership is a trendy word these days. Indeed, organisations can easily find good managers but hiring the right leaders has become a major challenge for most of them.
Why is that?

Maybe because leading is not only about completing tasks, analysing datas and making sure the organization is financially healthy. Leading is so much more than that. Leaders have a vision and they rely on their team to engage with it; their understanding of their environment is quicker and better than most of us and they are continuously moving barriers for their teams so that everyone can work in better conditions and go faster to their goal; they are always adjusting their behaviours to be the best in what they are doing; and maybe above all, they value, trust and empower those working with them. They know this is what will make them successful.
 
The good news is that leadership can be taught, developed, and/or supported.
During this 5-day workshops, the students will learn what leadership is about:
-       What the main qualities of a leader are;
-       What an effective communication is;
-       What problem solving is and a selection of tools they can use to resolve issues and challenges;
-       What makes time, conflict and stress management abilities so critical to be an efficient leader;
-       How Presentation skills can be developed to change a message from being simply good to being great!
 
The learning will be an interesting, fun and lively experience shared between theory, practice and games. We are also supported by an international company which will ask the students to resolve a real-life problem so that by the end of the week, the students will have to provide this company with a viable solution.

Caroline, our trainer, has more than 15 years of management in an American then French international organisations. She has also good entrepreneurial skills as she has founded her coaching and training company here in China last year. She is well aware of the tools and methods students can acquire to become better prepared to face and answer the many challenges that will happen at school, university and later at work.